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rattles this time\n\t\t091\tEnd of Chant\n\t\t099\t‘The tumbling grass breathe…’\n\t\t142\tEnd\n\t\t145\tBissett leads clapping and ‘Honey, hone’\n\t\t166\tBissett finishes\n\t\t169\tTallman suggests a break\n\t\t187\tMcFadden takes the microphone\n\t\t196\tMcFadden starts with quote from Margaret Randall’s introduction to a book on Cuban Poets\n\t\t234\t‘Vision that came to a 38-yar old male, English speaking, living in a Southern Canadian community, in the autumn’\n\t\t240\t‘Driving Home (for John Pass)’\n\t\t244\t‘The Folk Center’\n\t\t255\t‘The People’\n\t\t264\t‘This is such an awful story…’\n\t\t296\t‘News from the Nursing Home’\n\t\t307\t‘On the reigning reading light’\n\t\t316\t‘A poem to be placed at the beginning of a book\n\t\t327\t‘The Bunny farm’\n\t\t372\t‘Greaseball’\n\t\t389\t‘The Rat’\n\t\t399\tEnd of Side One\nTwo\t\t000\t\n\t\t007\t‘The Rat’ continued\n\t\t016\t‘The Baby in the Glass Case’\n\t\t031\t‘Alison at 14 and a half’\n\t\t055\t‘Unforgettable Dreams of Childhood’\n\t\t098\t‘Driving through the West Kootenays’\n\t\t107\t‘Dreary Weekend at Half Moon Bay’\n\t\t128\t‘Pinnocchio’\n\t\t149\t‘Carlos Pizzeria, Kingston Ontario, 1:30 am’\n\t\t154\t‘Truckers at a Truck Stop’\n\t\t168\t‘Been dead 22 years…’\n\t\t188\t‘Riding the Bus…’\n\t\t192\tMcFadden concludes\n\t\t200\tEnd of Side Two"],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"The cassette's label says it is very noisy, but I could hear it well\",\"type\":\"\"},{\"note\":\"Liner Notes: Open Space Gallery, part II, Vancouver Island, February 10, 1979 #709 \\npersons reading: Bill Bissett and David McFadden \\n(Very noisy, radio program breaking in)\",\"type\":\"General\"}]"],"Related_works":["[]"],"_version_":1853670552840962050,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T14:59:57.321Z","score":4.3135567}]